8 March 2023 • Mark Westall
Souls Grown Deep like the Rivers: Black Artists from the American South will showcase unique African American artistic traditions and methods of visual storytelling.
16 January 2023 • Mark Westall
This Saturday the Royal Academy of Arts will present Spain and the Hispanic World, celebrating the unrivalled collection of the… Read More
8 January 2023 • Tabish Khan
Tabish Khan the @LondonArtCritic picks his favourite top 5 exhibitions to see in museums to kick start 2023. Each one comes with a… Read More
28 December 2022 • Tabish Khan
The top art-y reads to pick up in the new year.
28 December 2022 • Paul Carey-Kent
I guess no one needs to be told about the Royal Academy, founded in 1768 and iconically located not once but thrice: in the former Royal Palace of Somerset House (1771- 1836), the National Gallery (1837-67) and Burlington House, Piccadilly (1868 onwards). It used to be considered crusty and old-fashioned (the Royal Academy o‘ Farts, perhaps) but has become cooler in recent years.
22 December 2022 • Mark Westall
Here are eight museum exhibitions we are looking forward to in 2023
1 October 2022 • Tabish Khan
Tabish Khan the @LondonArtCritic picks his favourite top 5 museum shows to see in London this Autumn. Each one comes with a concise review to help you decide whether it’s for you.
25 August 2022 • Mark Westall
In September the Royal Academy of Arts will host a major exhibition of the work of the internationally celebrated South African artist and Honorary Royal Academician, William Kentridge
24 August 2022 • Paul Carey-Kent
It’s a seamless art transition and only a hundred yards to move from the solo shows of Milton Avery (1885-1965) to that of his daughter March Avery (born 1932, and still painting six days a week in her New York studio).
13 July 2022 • Paul Carey-Kent
There are 1,465 works in this year’s Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, a third of them in the two galleries curated by Grayson Perry, who declares his approach ‘democratic’. So there’s no lack of options for making a selection of, say, six.
29 May 2022 • Tabish Khan
Demons, Impressionism, climate change, studios and roses.
25 May 2022 • Mark Westall
Marina Abramovic finally gets her show at the Royal Academy after it was delayed twice by COVID. The show will… Read More
29 April 2022 • Mark Westall
In autumn 2022, the Royal Academy of Arts will host a major exhibition of the work of the internationally celebrated… Read More
11 April 2022 • Tabish Khan
Tabish Khan the @LondonArtCritic picks his favourite exhibitions to see right now in museums and institutional art galleries. Each one comes with a… Read More
6 April 2022 • Paul Carey-Kent
It’s easy to find that, because there’s a time limit on changing exhibitions, you concentrate on those becasue you might miss them and never quite get round to looking at institutions’ permanent holdings, deep in the memory as they may be. So on visiting major new shows recently, I’ve also thought: let’s take a ride out, see what we can find…
27 March 2022 • Tabish Khan
Carnival, femininity, landscapes, art history & fire.
18 March 2022 • Lee Sharrock
I must admit that before I visited the Kawanabe Kyosai exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts, I wasn’t familiar with his work, and expected to see something in the vein of the revered Japanese artist Hokusai. Kyosai is considered to be a close successor of Hokusai, however, the exhibition felt more like looking at the work of an illustrator and satirist than a fine artist.
23 February 2022 • Paul Carey-Kent
The Royal Academy’s ‘Man and Beast’ offers the chance to see many prime paintings by Bacon
29 January 2022 • Lee Sharrock
For the first time in a decade, a major retrospective of paintings by 20th Century master Francis Bacon (1909-1992) is on display in London.
27 January 2022 • Mark Westall
At a recent General Assembly meeting, the Royal Academy of Arts elected three new Royal Academicians: Michael Armitage, in the… Read More
16 December 2021 • Mark Westall
Kawanabe Kyosai (1831–1889) was the most exciting and popular Japanese painter of the late 19th century. A child prodigy and… Read More
1 November 2021 • Tabish Khan
Tabish Khan the @LondonArtCritic picks his top exhibitions to see right now – this week it’s a photography special. Each one comes… Read More
13 October 2021 • Mark Westall
In January 2022, the Royal Academy of Arts will present Francis Bacon: Man and Beast, the first exhibition to chart… Read More
29 August 2021 • Tabish Khan
A flickering crossing, a bejewelled oil barrel, intense emotions and activism.
